If POST is denied, GET is probably correct.

When I last did this, I had to allow session cookies to get a authorization page to remember my login. See HTTP::Cookies

use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Cookies;

my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent();
$ua->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new());
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Then, do your login and it should get you past the first redirect.

(You may have to follow that redirect to get to the first page. simple_request doesn't do that, but WWW::Automate might. In either case, I just took the redirect to the homepage rather than too the login page as a sign of successful authorization and skipped right to the rest of my code.)

~J